Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture

by Simone Natale

Book Overview

In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism's rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed.

Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271071052
• ISBN13: 9780271071053
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"